Wednesday, May 5, 2010
Online Video Editing is Real?
I have recently begun consulting and shooting for a new site called www.watchknow.com. It's a great resource for kid's educational videos. It's a video wiki that was developed by Larry Sanger-a co-founder of Wikipedia. The site organizes and rates existing educational videos wherever they are hosted. Last week, Larry put forward the idea that classroom videos could be edited online using the power of an editing wiki in which trusted editors could edit and condense long classroom videos to strengthen the content. The idea is to upload raw video footage to a web server and do the editing there, using a hosted editing application, instead of on your own computer.
Here's what I have found so far in my quest to find a solution.
Most of the online video services that have been offered over the past few years have been taken down. Many are silly 'gag video' editors or are too limited to be of use. Many are here-today-gone-tomorrow kinds of sites. This is a major limitation. We don't want things to spin out of control by depending on a weak service.
I have not had any success finding a working example of Adobe Premiere Express on photobucket's website-or anywhere else as of yet. I am not at all sure that it still exists. It is confusing me. Although Adobe offers partnerships with sites who would like to use the editing feature on their sites. The service has been discontinued on youtube from what i have gathered. I am contacting adobe to see what their response is and will forward any info. However since i have been unable to figure out a single basic edit, I am not ready to endorse.
I found a site called www.moviemasher.com that looks promising. It's an open source - online editing tool that can be installed on your own server. The developer is willing to work with Watchknow as needed.
The big challenges with online video editing that I see are:
1. Finding a permanent, non-novelty oriented service that is cheap or free.
2. Assuring the ability to upload long clips.
3. One must be able to cut out sections in the middle of a clip while still preserving the beginning and end of the clip is desired. It is not enough to just trim one end of a clip. We need to be able to cut out an unwanted segment in the middle of the video.
4. The interface must be simple, and allow for preserving the original clip in case an editor makes a mistake.
5. There should be an 'undo' functionality.
6. I am sure their are more challenges!
Posted above is my video about watchknow for those who would like to know more.
Here's what I have found so far in my quest to find a solution.
Most of the online video services that have been offered over the past few years have been taken down. Many are silly 'gag video' editors or are too limited to be of use. Many are here-today-gone-tomorrow kinds of sites. This is a major limitation. We don't want things to spin out of control by depending on a weak service.
I have not had any success finding a working example of Adobe Premiere Express on photobucket's website-or anywhere else as of yet. I am not at all sure that it still exists. It is confusing me. Although Adobe offers partnerships with sites who would like to use the editing feature on their sites. The service has been discontinued on youtube from what i have gathered. I am contacting adobe to see what their response is and will forward any info. However since i have been unable to figure out a single basic edit, I am not ready to endorse.
I found a site called www.moviemasher.com that looks promising. It's an open source - online editing tool that can be installed on your own server. The developer is willing to work with Watchknow as needed.
The big challenges with online video editing that I see are:
1. Finding a permanent, non-novelty oriented service that is cheap or free.
2. Assuring the ability to upload long clips.
3. One must be able to cut out sections in the middle of a clip while still preserving the beginning and end of the clip is desired. It is not enough to just trim one end of a clip. We need to be able to cut out an unwanted segment in the middle of the video.
4. The interface must be simple, and allow for preserving the original clip in case an editor makes a mistake.
5. There should be an 'undo' functionality.
6. I am sure their are more challenges!
Posted above is my video about watchknow for those who would like to know more.
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